Recently Dorothy, aka @maclurker, posted some really amazing macro shots she took of some flowers in her backyard. She used her big-girl camera and a new macro lens she got for Christmas. She inspired me to drag out my big-girl camera, slap on the macro lens and take it for my walk. I love taking […]
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Can $8 Enable a Great Webcam Experience?
When we all went underground, I did a blog post where I talked about the essential equipment for participating in video calls from home. I also talked warned about price gouging. At the time, the Logitech C920 webcam that I recommended was going for close to $300 when it’s normally closer to $50, but it […]
Continue readingI’m an idiot… – by Steven Goetz
I accidentally deleted my photos while trying to “back them up”. But to explain why this wasn’t as big of a disaster as it could have been here is some background. I enjoy photography, I use Lightroom to organize and edit the RAW files that I have accumulated over many years. I have a 2014 […]
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5 Hiking Apps by Jill From the North Woods
Hello everyone. I hope you enjoy getting outdoors and seeing nature. I wanted to share some of my favorite ways to find hikes and enjoy parks. AllTrails AllTrails Showing Wyoming State Forest To start with, AllTrails.com is a fantastic app and a great website. It is a huge database of over 100,000 trails throughout the […]
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Trevor Drover and the International Mystery Keystroke Adventure
This might be my favorite Dumb Question of all time. It starts in Australia, passes through the US, saunters into The Netherlands, then hits two spots in Japan and ends up in our collective distant past. We’ll start with the original question from Trevor Drover in Australia: Trevor Trying to Size a Graphic in Pages […]
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Security Bits — 3 May 2020
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Zoom continues to respond positively to problems with and criticisms of their platform: Zoom announces 5.0 update with tougher encryption and new security features — www.imore.com/… Last time Bart was not sure of the […]
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Midwest Mac BBQ Game Night – Play Jackbox Games Remotely With Audio — by Barry Fulk
Jackbox Games In this current time of ‘work from home’, ‘stay from home’ – it was also time to ‘play from home!’ I often host a game night at my house with friends or coworkers. We like to play the Jackbox series of games from jackboxgames.com. This includes games such as Fibbage, Drawful, Quiplash, and […]
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Fell in Love with the Magic Keyboard for iPads Pro
Apple Magic Keyboard for iPads Pro Sometimes a product comes along in the Apple environment that you don’t need but you really want. This year it’s the Magic Keyboard for iPads Pro. At $300 for the 11″ and $350 for the 12.9″ iPad Pro, as Robb Dunnewood would say, “It costs a grip.” You can […]
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Create Long, Strong, Memorable and Typeable Passwords with xkpasswd.net
If you already know what xkpasswd is, and you want to jump right to the tutorial, click here. What is xkpasswd? Back in 2011, Randall Munroe, the author of the fantastically nerdy and hilarious comic strip XKCD wrote a comic he calls Password Strength. In the illustration he explains how by forcing humans to create […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 19 April 2020
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Correction: — the microphone cut-off switch in the new iPad Pros is not a physical disconnect, but it is completely independent of iOS and can’t be affected by malware because it’s in the T2 […]
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